The Food Lover's Guide to Paris app for the iPhone + iPad

Discover more than 520 of the city’s ultimate culinary destinations, updated for 2017 and tested by Patricia and her team, with concise overview details and focused, dependable commentary. Includes Patricia’s discriminating selection of Paris restaurants, cafes, wine bars, bakeries, pastry, chocolate and cheese shops, markets, wine shops, specialty food shops and kitchen and tableware shops, for just $4.99.

Patricia's Food Lover's Guide to Paris is back!

The most authoritative guide to eating well in the City of Light is now available as an app for iOS 8.

"Food lovers rejoice! You can now tour Paris with Patricia Wells, the city's most reliable guide to its very best spots. Her app is fast and easy to use, chock-full of terrific information and a great read. In other words, it's a delicious must-have."

Features:

A map of Paris shows all selected addresses, with color-coded pins and GPS locations to guide you to the best restaurants, shops and markets in the vicinity, wherever you may be. (Offline maps are available when you are not connected to the internet. See the 'about' section on the homepage of the app for how-to-use instructions.)

Each destination includes commentary, address, contact phone number, opening hours, and menu prices. App users can call numbers directly, link to web sites and find relevant directions. Photos are included for many destinations.

Search the app contents by category or neighborhood, or by particular restaurant specifics such as price, cuisine type, specialties or restaurant details like vegetarian-friendly or Michelin-star rating.

Browse the full listings across all categories when you're looking for inspiration.

Patricia’s famous dining dictionary (often copied but never equaled) is an A-Z glossary of French culinary terms to help translate menus on the spot.

A list of 10 of Patricia's favorite addresses across Paris, plus regularly updated seasonal restaurant selections from Patricia and her team. Bookmark your own favorites for a personalized top picks list.

Patricia Wells

Patricia Wells – journalist, author, and cooking teacher – is an American who has lived in Paris since 1980. She is the author of 13 books, including The French Kitchen Cookbook, Simply Truffles, Vegetable Harvest, We've Always Had Paris...and Provence, Bistro Cooking, Simply French, and Trattoria. Her first book, The Food Lover’s Guide to Paris, was a landmark work that "cracked the code" to the Paris food world. (The Food Lovers Guide iPhone app is available from the iTunes store, and an all new version of the print edition is scheduled for March publication.) She is the only woman and only foreigner to serve as restaurant critic of a major French publication, the newsweekly L’Express. From 1980 to 2007 she served as restaurant critic for the International Herald Tribune. Previously, she was a writer and editor for The Washington Post and The New York Times.

She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for her contributions to French culture, and received an honorary doctorate from Muhlenberg College in 2013 and another in gastronomic journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2007. Several of her books have received the James Beard and IACP awards, and most of them have been translated into several languages. At certain times of the year, she conducts week-long cooking classes both in her cooking studio in Paris and at her farmhouse in Provence. She is married to Walter Wells, retired executive editor of the International Herald Tribune and now her enthusiastic sous-chef.